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To: paul_philp who wrote (88386)	3/31/2003 4:42:21 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 281500

I was thinking the same thing. "Pulling an Arnett" will now become part of our language. And that isn't meant in a good way. -ng

To: paul_philp who wrote (88386)	3/31/2003 8:18:09 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Paul, I was in meetings into early evening and then commuted home. I just started watching the coverage and now all thats talked about is that horrible "accident" with a car full of women and children were running a roadblock. I will bet you a Bud against a Molson that there was a fedayeen driver who did this as a psychological suicide bomb hoping for this result. If my guess is correct, they are the worse scum alive. Bet you the bastard jumped out and perhaps even got away. Mike

To: paul_philp who wrote (88386)	4/1/2003 1:05:29 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Arnett did us a favor. He went so far over the line there will be a backlash - the media will not want to 'pull a Arnett' - and coverage will become a little more reasonable. Wanna bet? I was listening to the BBC on the radio this evening, and they were going over some incident where civilians got killed at a checkpoint, in the hopes that this would show how the Allies are losing the war for 'hearts and minds' (I use the word 'hopes' advisedly - the BBC quite obviously want the Allies to lose or at least to suffer badly). They were talking about it with a fairly reasonable American whose name I didn't catch. He was talking about the importance of humanitarian aid, when his interlocutor, a woman interviewer using the tone of disdainful skepticism that Beeb hands all have, said, "But humanitarian experts say that that food is not the issue, there is adequate food in the country." I think to myself, "Hello? Yesterday the 'humanitarian experts' were predicting imminent humanitarian catastrophe if the supplies didn't get into country immediately. Don't tell me, let me guess - did the Brits manage to open the port of Umm Qasr to aid ships today? Wouldn't want to have to say that the army ever did anything right, would we?" Then I shut off the radio. Can anyone tell me if my guess was right?